Resourcing JVP’s Organizing

JVP is proud to be a grassroots membership organization, funded by members who support our shared vision of a free Palestine and a world that guarantees safety and liberation for all. We are building and organizing a massive, grassroots, multiracial and intergenerational base of U.S. Jews. We organize this base to counter the specific role that Jewish Zionist organizations play in upholding the U.S.-Israel alliance and upend the blatant lie that it is “Jewish safety” rather than U.S. imperial and financial interests that drive our government’s complicity in arming and funding Israel’s genocide, apartheid, and occupation. Playing this role is the foundation of JVP’s work.

Accordingly, contributions to JVP are used to strengthen and build grassroots organizing -- from mass actions that build public pressure against the genocide, to divestment campaigns that change the bottom line for corporate war profiteers, to in-person member gatherings that deepen collective leadership and strategy, to staff who allow us to operate at the greatest possible scale in our contributions to the movement for Palestinian liberation.

We think it’s essential and possible to fund many different types of movement-building as well as survival work in these profoundly difficult and dire times, and actively encourage all JVP members and donors to give as much as possible to trusted direct aid for Palestinians.

JVP’s work, in turn, is focused on our specific role as a US-based Jewish organization committed to upending the financial, cultural, and political relationships that tie the U.S. and Israel’s ongoing atrocities.

Facts about JVP’s resources

Funding and membership

  • As of June 2026, JVP is funded almost entirely by individuals, with an average donation of $79. Being funded primarily by our members allows JVP to maintain independence and take bold stances in line with our organizational mission.
  • As a result of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, millions of people around the globe became aware of and joined movements for Palestinian liberation for the first time. This included tremendous growth for JVP, including a massive increase in new dues-paying members committed to advancing JVP’s mission.

 

Budget and finances

  • From 2021 to 2024, JVP’s operating budgets ranged from $2.5 million to $5.2 million. Financial documents for each year are publicly available on our website here.
  • In fiscal year 2024 (ending June 2024), 31,000 members contributed to JVP for a total of $11 million, which was totally unprecedented. The bulk of those funds have since been spent on educational, community, and proactive organizing for Palestine, as well as legal defense work for JVP and the movement.
  • In fiscal year 2025 (ending June 2025), tens of thousands of members contributed to JVP for a total income of $10.6 million. Our expenses were just over $11 million, representing a small deficit. JVP works diligently to steward resources into our most powerful mobilizing to stop the US-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians, while also investing in long-term power building and leadership development, so that the thousands of new members in over 100 cities and campuses can be absorbed into the long-term work of basebuilding, community education, and BDS campaigning focused on Palestinian rights and liberation.
  • JVP has a reserve policy that aims to maintain at least 3-6 months of operating expenses - a widely recognized best practice among organizations - which helps to ensure we can maintain our work uninterrupted, even if we experience unforeseen shortfalls in grassroots fundraising or major emergencies. In the fiscal year 2025 we maintained an operating reserve on the low end of our policy.

 

Salaries at JVP

Nothing can ever justify the profound inequalities of this world, such that some receive living wage salaries for their labor while so many people are struggling under the conditions of poverty, oppression, and genocide. Within the deep injustice of a capitalist system, JVP works to maintain a workplace with clear values and transparent policies.

The values that guide how JVP salaries are set:

  • Living wages: Our salaries are rooted in a commitment to providing all staff living wages.
  • Supporting families: Our salaries allow people who support dependents and/or have medical or other expenses to work at JVP.
  • Sustainability: Our salaries contribute to a very low turnover rate of staff; we have decades of in-house experience working towards JVP’s mission.
  • Stewarding resources: The organization is always focused on responsibly stewarding resources to programmatic work in a time of profound crisis and the critical need to pursue our mission.
  • Equity: JVP also works to ensure a salary range across the organization such that the highest and lowest paid members of staff have no more than a 3:1 ratio between them.

JVP sets salaries according to U.S. non-profit standards for organizational size and budget, as well as via negotiations with the staff union, represented by the Washington-Baltimore News Guild.

Staff salaries are benchmarked to be at least 50th percentile for similarly sized and resourced non-profit organizations.

In 2024, the Executive Director’s salary was $152,000. For reference, the rate for an Executive Director’s salary for a non-profit with a budget between $2.1 million and $10 million in 2025 was between $180-189k. For an organization over $10 million, it was $240-249k. The Executive Director's wages for the fiscal year of 2024 are higher than her regular salary because they include a one-time payment of owed back wages from March 2020 to December 2024. During this time, the executive director’s salary was reduced from her contracted rate to ensure budgetary challenges from COVID-19 did not lead to staff layoffs.

 

The cost of repression

Since 2023, repressive attacks on JVP’s organizing for Palestinian freedom have escalated in major ways. These have included a host of lawsuits brought by various Trump-aligned law firms, a David Abrams’ initiated DOJ investigation, and inclusion in the Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther. In response, we have had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, always prioritizing full legal compliance, the protection of our organizational mission, and the movement as a whole. We refuse to be distracted, and see every lawsuit, threat, and false accusation as an opportunity to keep the focus on Palestine, and to advance our work for Palestinian freedom.

 

Opposition resources

Anti-Palestinian organizations claiming to speak for Jews means that JVP has a responsibility to be an effective counterweight to groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The ADL’s FY24 budget was $130 million, and they raised $162 million that same year. For JVP to be able to effectively counter such groups, it takes significant resources.

 

The scale of JVP’s organizing

JVP’s resources power our ability to keep fighting the genocide and building public understanding towards Palestinian and collective liberation. Our most recent annual report details some of our impact.

JVP counts over 100 chapters in cities and campuses across the country, led by volunteer members and supported by staff; those chapters plan actions, build coalitions, organize divestment campaigns, block repressive legislation, and grow the movement for the long haul.

In the past three years, JVP organized more than 1000 actions, in what amounted to the largest demonstrations of Jewish solidarity with Palestine in U.S. history. In addition to on-the-ground mobilizing events all over the U.S., we reach over 2 million people on social media with educational posts, and we have a powerful digital organizing program, driving hundreds of thousands of calls and emails to decision-makers including university administrations, editors, and others in positions of power.

JVP organizers have also held a virtual Power Half-Hour for Gaza every weekday for the last 2 years, providing a space for people from across the world to gather, gain political grounding, and take over 1,000,000 digital actions together to strategically pressure campaign targets.

 

Giving

See more about JVP’s fundraising for Palestinian organizations here.

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